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I am Andrew Alberti and this is one of my Emails with responses from some readers. I write about about various subjects in which I either have an interest or experience. I have scrubbed the names of senders to encourage more responses. You may consider them my comments since I know each of the writers personally . The responses are to provide examples of issues relating to my original comments. Thanks to those for their participation.
June 13, 2010 I received an Email asking about why a friend could not vote for me in the primary. I have heard from other candidates who have also been contacted with the same refrain. This was my explanation. Maybe you want to embellish or just share with someone you know.
From my in box yesterday. An insider suggests the ultimate solution! I am concerned with the inability of the School Board, and the Superintendent to come up with a solution to the budget problems ($6,500,000). So with all the information I have I sat down to see exactly what the hold up was. Granted some issues have to be voted on by the different unions but needless to say it took me all of 20 minutes to come up with a solution / proposal. This included checking it 3 times to make sure I wasn't missing something based on the information I have been given. So here are my suggestions: $3,200,000 worth of cuts listed on page one of the proposed budget cuts (they said in the last meeting this was likely going to be a part of the cuts). So with just these two items we are up to $4,500,000. (And I'm rounding down)
$1,300,000 25% savings health insurance, $600,000 close Mt. Charleston , So whaddya think? Some adjustments may be needed but it looks good to me! No tax increase and scholastics become the educational focus. I have serious concerns when I walk the halls of school and all the trophies and accolades are for sports, totally ignoring the first mission of school which is academics. It's time to put the mission of our schools in proper perspective. Andy I have been asked often when the school board meets. The information below is for May. It's interesting to note that the board rotates meetings between Pahrump and Tonopah but when they will be at either location is not in the notice. The District has been notified by me that their notices are not appearing in the newspaper because the district is not notifying the proper person. Since the district is silent on this I will be providing notices through my Emails. Parents who want a quality education for their children may be interested in my comments below. Others seem not to care. ________________________________________________________________________________________ I am a parent of high school students here in Pahrump and agree changes need to be made. Yes, it is a common feeling among teachers that they are not supported by our administrators and unruly children are allowed or should I say required to stay in the classroom (NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND). ___________________________________________________________________________________________ I have substituted for a year in LAUSD, I have worked under an " emergency English " credential in LAUSD _____________________________________________________________________________________________ I can see what you're going through. I am trying to assist a fifth grader here in a Nye County town. He brings his homework to Grandmas house most of the time and occasionally to my house. Last night, he had science, math and history homework. He spent about thirty minutes lolly-gagging at my dining room table then announced that it was time for little league practice. I took the opportunity to walk my dogs in his absence. When he returned, he took another two hours and I checked his work. His science work was tolerable with only a couple of errors. His history was obviously done with a minimum of effort. The math work was not acceptable and he had the nerve to argue with me when I informed him that his answers were wrong. When we got past that, I showed him the errors and we looked at his work to determine where he had made mistakes.
I fail to see how students in Nye County can be learning anything unless parents (or tutors) give these young people this level of attention. It appears to me that they will be passed on to the next grade with the assumption (wrong) that they will eventually learn. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ In 1995, a substitute teacher wrote a letter to editor, explaining that the inmates were running the asylum! He made the serious mistake of trying to discipline an unruly strudent, by simply escorting the kid out to the hallway for proper counselling---he held on to the kid's arm! For this the teacher was fired and nearly charged for simple assault! The Superintendant at the time---a lady, Harge, wrote a letter filled with numerous alibi's, that because of the mandates from Washington, disciplining students was not permitted!
My response was also printed in which I explained that according to our precious 10th Amendment the humongous Federal Department of Education is totally unconstitutional and for which we taxpayers are paying dearly for over $100 BILLION per year!
What is interesting about this crime is that in 1976 candidate for president, Jimmy Carter was approached by the largest labor union on earth, the National Education Association (NEA) with a $7 MILLION bribe---with the understanding that once in office he would give them their much vaunted plum, never mind that this matter never passed proper legislation! And for which has dummied down learning in our once proud nation!
Last year I thought I would contribute to the local education racket by taking advantage of Constitution Day---a holiday like tribute to the greatest document ever devised by man---every public school class would honor the history of that piece of paper, which was mandated by law in 2004. As a patriot I took a video, Overview of America to the administration for possibly showing to classes. After 3 days I called the office and was informed that the decision would be up to Jerry Hill, Assistant Superintendent for Student Achievement, so I called him to determine if he had viewed the film---have'nt had time he answered! Right away the warning of a liberal delaying tactic, hoping that I would go away clicked my mind.
I rushed down to confront this weasel in which the situation nearly became violent. Every time I mentioned any thing about the Constitution he would state that it was my opinion! And I, of course, stated: no sir---it means exactly what it says. He lied when he told me he was too busy to view this absolutely patriotic, educational tool, because in our confrontation he shouted, "you don't stand a chance in hell for me to show it, because it was produced by the John Birch Society!" Fumingl I asked him if he was a Communist, which he refused to answer, but volunteered that he was a dedicated left-wing liberal!
I then rushed to the Suprintendant's office mad as could be and after he cooled me down, he sat down with me and viewed the 29 minute film, whereupon he said he could see nothing wrong with it. So I ordered two dozen more video's hoping that this beautiful tribute explaining the history, which not only focuses on the Constitution, but compares other governments with ours---would be shared with more classes.
I gave the superintendent's secretary, Lisa, the video's requesting that they be returned to me and asked that she call me when they were no longer needed. So far, I've yet to hear from her!
Is it possible for you to provide me with the best-kept secret---Jerry Hill's salary?
Thanks,
_____________________________________________________________________________________________ Its unfortunate that the inmates are in charge of the asylum. Its more unfortunate that my tax money goes to support these non-students.
We need to recognize that we need lettuce pickers, and bus boys but we don't need to teach them calculus, not on my dime!
The school administrator should have effective control of communications within the activity and emergency plans including commo set up - or someone needs to get paid less.
The school loves it when the Parents "don't Interfere," then they can run it in any ineffective manner without supervision.
We need to reward good students and not reward non-students.
__________________________ Its unfortunate that the inmates are in charge of the asylum. Its more unfortunate that my tax money goes to support these non-students.
We need to recognize that we need lettuce pickers, and bus boys but we don't need to teach them calculus, not on my dime!
The school administrator should have effective control of communications within the activity and emergency plans including commo set up - or someone needs to get paid less.
The school loves it when the Parents "don't Interfere," then they can run it in any ineffective manner without supervision.
We need to reward good students and not reward non-students.
____________________________________________________________________________________________ I am not sure who sent me this but it is certainly timely.
While sitting in his chair on the town board, If Mr Dolan sees fit to publicly trash the citizens of Pahrump, for any reason, who are displeased with his actions and blames them for the lack of businesses and jobs here, he needs to be specific. He is getting a free pass by making statements on Television without names places and dates. The news media needs to press him for details on his statements and dig for the facts, or are we just being spoon fed Pablum at election time. "In case some of you missed the news last night, I did and someone sent me the message below in red. Dolan is blaming the people who get involved in town board meetings for lack of business in town. Did he miss the recession? (I remember the meeting where he said he has people he listens to -- obviously not people who get involved in the town). Do you want someone in office (he was appointed before remember, not a truly elected official) who doesn't listen to you unless you are already predisposed to the way he thinks??? Dolan is a nurse (granted a noble profession), but he is not a business person. Also, King Dolan thinks he is better than the rest. Gibbons this was the biggest mistake you make for our town -- appointing such an arrogant idiot. Anyway, you of the peanut gallery, read the below info: Did you hear Dolan on the news last night where he blames the people for the way they act at the town board meetings why businesses don't want to come here on 41. They also give a lot of time to Shupp, Dolan & Rust."
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